MAN WHO WOULD STOP AT NOTHING, Hardcover

For the 50 000 members of the Iron Butt AssociationA?also known as the “World’s Toughest Motorcyclists”A?long-distance motorcycling is not a pastime but an obsession. These men and women push the limits of human endurance often in rides of more than one thousand miles a day. Perhaps the most determined of them is John Ryan a diabetic and a man who even in late middle age loves nothing better than riding impossible distances at no small risk to himself. But why? Melissa Holbrook Pierson herself a longtime motorcyclist chronicles the gratifications of long-distance riding as well as the challenges and solitude that accompany it. In seeking to understand why people strive so mightily to reach a goal with no reward other than having gotten there Pierson gives us an intimate glimpse of a singularly independent yet supportive community and a revealing portrait of its most daring member.rn
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• rntAuthor: Melissa Holbrook Piersonrnrnt

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• rntFormat: Hardcoverrnrnt

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• rntTrim Size: 5.8 A? 8.5″rnrnt

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• rntISBN: 978-0-393-07904-3rnrnt

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• rntPublisher: WW Norton & Cornt

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Here are the pleasures and perils of compulsive long-distance motorcyclingA?and one man’s mission to outride everyone else. Written by: Melissa Holbrook Pierson